Best URL solution for ranking

[mikeylondon]

Hi guys

Even though i own a fair few domain names (in the 100's) I'm new to all this and have not yet attempted to sell / monetise any of them. I'd be grateful for any advice. I have a bunch of questions that i'll post separately, so many thanks in advance.

If for example I did own the domain www.visit.com and I wanted to target the keywords "visit America" which would be the better road to go down?

1) www.visit.com/america

2) www.visit.com/visit-america

3) http://america.visit.com

Cheers,

Mike

 

[retired_member16]

I find its best to be as discriptive as possible, so I would go for

www.visit.com/visit-america

 

[ScottJ]

Nice domain Mike, I would avoid looking too spammy and go with: visit.com/america/

 

[mikeylondon]

Thanks firestars & ScottJ for your advice

Just to note ScottJ I don't own this domain (wish I did) I was just using it as an example.

Also just to clarify if i did follow this E.g www.visit.com/visit-america

But who did you mean that this would come across as spammy to? Google or the end user?


Cheers,

Mike

 

[ScottJ]

Google is quite aware of keyword repetition and it's conceivable it could have an adverse effect if overused so I meant Google.

 

[mikeylondon]

Ok I understand now

Thanks


Mike

 

[bensd]

A couple of things to bear in mind when deciding your url structure -
1. Google indexes each subdomain as a seperate site (so you can feature more than twice in the serps)
2. Google gives more weight to the keywords nearer the start of the url

Not worth doing for a minisite however for a larger site is worth giving some thought to subdomains -
amercia.visit.com
england.visit.com
etc